The Strongest Wizard Becomes a Countryside Guardsman After Taking an Arrow to the Knee - Ch. 12.2

[MangaDex]

 

[LordScat]

Welp, quick cliff XD

 

[Aichan]

I want to cry, "Too short!!!" but I guess that's to be expected from this mangaka.

 

[breizh]

Why use extra large fire AOE near a forest against a dragon ?

It seems a bit inefficient and dangerous.

 

[MCX01]

Hope to see him go all out some day.

 

[HDMI1]

@briezh It's not just a dragon it's a flock/squad? of Undead dragons. Fire and Holy magics are the only things that would affect them, and since he was trying to thin them out before the battle actually started the AoE was the best option despite the forest being there.

 

[Acolytus]

This feels like the usual wizard in a tabletop game trying to nuke the problem away only for the GM to go "Nope, the great dragon has a magical shield and the other dragons got protected by that too. Fuck you".

 

[Red225]

Soon

Giant cow attack

 

[Taerene]

ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuun

 

[stal2walk]

When you use big scale magic just to see it come out unscathed

@Acolytus lul I feel that

 

[Artaris]

thank you for translating

 

[The5thSeraph]

Using a largescale Fire / Darkness spell against an Undead Dragon.

Fire against a Dragon.
Darkness against Undead.
This complete tard picked the WORST POSSIBLE element choice for this foe, and destroyed everything EXCEPT the target in a fucking mountain range.
Yeah okay, so I guess maybe you might be thinking "fire works against undead", but that is neglecting it being a DRAGON. And darkness was never going to work against either.

Dragon weakness varies with the setting, but usually it is "anything except fire" (though given this is an ascended Skyrim meme, I'm surprised he isn't just shouting at it). Undead weakness is generally Holy / Light.
There is your fucking answer right there: Shout JOOR ZAH FRUL at it.

 

[Ghekor]

@The5thSeraph Blunt/Fire is also a normal weakness for undead also its Undead depending on the setting a dragons resistance to fire or magic could easily be lowered/removed. Given that he was expecting it to work,but didnt due to the dragon being Great in rank it safe to say in this setting his spell would have worked on lower ones, plus he was reducing the power so as to not create a wasteland.

 

[The5thSeraph]

@Ghekor
Fire is a weakness for dry or mummified undead, I guess. It tends to be inconsistent with zombies and the like depending on their relative moisture levels (dessicated would be weak to fire, whereas swamp-type zombies would be highly resistant). Doesn't apply to skeletal undead, not that such is relevant here.
Blunt impact is, on the other hand, a weakness for skeletal undead and doesn't typically apply to those with flesh.

So if it was a mummified dracolich (I've literally never encountered one) then fire would be a weakness. OR if the dragon type was explicitly an ice element or similar rather than defaulting to fire-breathing as normal, then sure... fire. For any other situation though, fire would definitely be something it would be resistant to. And the darkness aspect there is absolutely no hope for as I've NEVER encountered a setting where the undead weren't resistant to dark attacks ... and about the only conceivable way that could not be the case is with really weird shit like Baelnorn.